Siu mai originated with the Yuan Dynasty metropolis, which was located in the inner area of what is now the old city of Beijing, as well as the area north of it. It was the largest city in the world at the time.

And nowadays, siu mai, a traditional Chinese food, is distributed in Beijing, Shandong, Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places in China.

Two, siu mai's various names

Siu mai originated in China, in the north and south of the country, but the name is not mostly the same. In today's Beijing area, people call it siu mai, while in China's Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other regions, people prefer to call it siu mai.

Three, the history of siu mai

1. Yuan Dynasty

Siu mai has a long history in China, on the can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty Goryeo published Chinese textbook - "Park Thing Thong" on the book recorded in the record of the vegetal acid filling of the siu mai, words: thin skin meat cut meat, when the top of the handful of thin like the line of the tip system, it is said that a little bit of wheat, the surface as the skin to the meat as the filling as the stamen, the dialect is called the siu mai. Siu mai. Records and objects can be compared with each other, here a little wheat and today's siu mai is the same thing.

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2. Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Ming and Qing Dynasties saw the gradual emergence of the names of "siu mai" and "siu mai," with "siu mai" appearing in the records. For example, "Jinpingmei words" appears in the peach blossom siu mai, "Yangzhou painting boat record" "Tongqiao chairs and rows of books have recorded the word siu mai, as well as the Qing dynasty's "Tiao Dingji" in the inclusion of a variety of fillings siu mai, what meat filling siu mai, bean paste filling siu mai, oil sugar filling siu mai and so on.

Nowadays, there are siu mai available all over China, and compared to the ancient times, we modern people not only make siu mai more fine, we also invented many new ways to eat. Therefore, we can eat all kinds of siu mai nowadays. For example, Henan's cut line siu mai, Anhui's duck oil siu mai, Suzhou's three fresh siu mai, Shandong Linqing's mutton siu mai, Hangzhou's beef siu mai, Guangzhou's crab meat siu mai, pork liver siu mai, pork ribs siu mai and so on.